And the pace will be quicker. Frenetic, perhaps at times. Mike Holmgren used to fill a room with his looming presence. Carroll fills the same room with energy and enthusiasm.

He’s about the same physical size as Jim Mora, but somehow brings a bigger stature. And the guy is no stranger to the art of presentation.

Mora used to sit at a table on the stage in the front of the auditorium at the team’s headquarters for press conferences. If it was a big announcement, he’d be flanked by CEO Tod Leiweke and/or former GM Tim Ruskell.

Carroll instead had a one-man podium to stand behind on the same stage, which raised his profile. Symbolically, he also stood alone. Leiweke introduced him, handed him a Seahawks helmet and then stood off to the side.

This was Carroll’s show. And he apparently intends to keep it that way, saying at one point the thing that made his USC situation great was that his was the one voice of the program and that similar set-up is what attracted him to the Seahawks.

That seemed odd given Leiweke’s word of the week is “collaboration” and he speaks of his coach standing “shoulder-to-shoulder” with the new GM. But Carroll doesn’t strike me as one who’ll let little things like that slow him down.

Which, frankly, is fine with me. Most organizations work best with one clear face of the franchise — as the Seahawks did with Holmgren in their best years — and Carroll’s strength is his powerful profile and presentation. To diminish that would be wasting some of Paul Allen’s hard-earned money.

Speaking of which, it hit me Tuesday that Mora — who will be paid the remaining three years on his deal for $12 million — has thus earned about $16 million for all of 12 months of labor.

That works out to $1.3 million a month. Or $3.2 million per win. So while I feel bad for Mora, who is a stand-up guy even when he was sitting down at press conferences, I don’t feel sorry for him. Other than bruised feelings, he came out OK in that deal.

It remains to be seen if Carroll can succeed as the third Seahawks coach now in three years — not a recipe for short-term success in any organization — but he will bring a fresh breeze through the team and reason for at least tempered optimism for fans who previously had none.

Besides first impressions Tuesday, we learned also that Carroll has been given the title of Executive Vice President of Football Operations in addition to head coach. And while his business card won’t say Team President, as was first reported last weekend, it is a little flashier than the plain ol’ Vice President of Football Operations label that Leiweke mentioned Monday.

None of those words much matter, of course. What counts is who has final say on football matters and that apparently is something that will be worked out, depending on who ultimately is hired as the GM and what sort of qualifications the new man brings.

If that sounds a bit squishy for now, fear not. Somehow you get the feeling Carroll’s voice will wind up being heard, regardless.